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NOTICE: NOTICES

ACTION: Meetings:

SUBJECT CATEGORY: Scientific Review and Evaluation Board for Health Services Research and Development Service, Notice of Meeting

DOCUMENT SUMMARY:

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice under Public Law 92463, Federal Advisory Committee Act, that a meeting of the Scientific Review and Evaluation Board for Health Services Research and Development Service, will be held at the Bahia Hotel, 998 West Mission Bay Drive, San Diego, California, from January 2023, 2003. The Investigator Initiated Research and Service Directed Project (IIR/SDP) reviews will convene from 8 a.m.5 p.m. on Wednesday, January 21 and Thursday, January 22, 2004. The Nursing Research Initiative (NR) review will convene on Friday, January 23, 2004, from 8 a.m.12 noon.

The purpose of the Board is to review research and development applications concerned with the measurement and evaluation of health care services and with testing new methods of health care delivery and management, and nursing research. Applications are reviewed for scientific and technical merit. Recommendations regarding funding are prepared for the Chief Research and Development Officer.

On January 20, 2004, the meeting will be open to the public for approximately one halfhour from 7 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. to cover administrative matters and to discuss the general status of the program. The remaining portion of the meeting on January 2023, 2004 will be closed. The closed portion of the meeting involves discussion, examination, reference to, and oral review of staff and consultant critiques of research protocols and similar documents. During this portion of the meeting, discussion and recommendations will include qualifications of the personnel conducting the studies (the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy), as well as research information (the premature disclosure of which would be likely to compromise significantly the implementation of proposed agency action regarding such research projects).

As provided by subsection 10(d) of Public Law 92463, as amended by Public Law 94409, closing portions of these meetings is in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6) and (9)(B).

Those who plan to attend the open session should contact the Assistant Director, Scientific Review (124F), Health Services Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, 1722 Eye Street, NW., Washington, DC, at least five days before the meeting. For further information, call (202) 2540207.

Dated: November 17, 2003.

By Direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 0329108 Filed 112003; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 832001M

SUMMARY: Health Services Research and Development Service Scientific Review and Evaluation Board,

DOCUMENT BODY 2:

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice under Public Law 92463, Federal Advisory Committee Act, that a meeting of the Scientific Review and Evaluation Board for Health Services Research and Development Service, will be held at the Bahia Hotel, 998 West Mission Bay Drive, San Diego, California, from January 2023, 2003. The Investigator Initiated Research and Service Directed Project (IIR/SDP) reviews will convene from 8 a.m.5 p.m. on Wednesday, January 21 and Thursday, January 22, 2004. The Nursing Research Initiative (NR) review will convene on Friday, January 23, 2004, from 8 a.m.12 noon.

The purpose of the Board is to review research and development applications concerned with the measurement and evaluation of health care services and with testing new methods of health care delivery and management, and nursing research. Applications are reviewed for scientific and technical merit. Recommendations regarding funding are prepared for the Chief Research and Development Officer.

On January 20, 2004, the meeting will be open to the public for approximately one halfhour from 7 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. to cover administrative matters and to discuss the general status of the program. The remaining portion of the meeting on January 2023, 2004 will be closed. The closed portion of the meeting involves discussion, examination, reference to, and oral review of staff and consultant critiques of research protocols and similar documents. During this portion of the meeting, discussion and recommendations will include qualifications of the personnel conducting the studies (the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy), as well as research information (the premature disclosure of which would be likely to compromise significantly the implementation of proposed agency action regarding such research projects).

As provided by subsection 10(d) of Public Law 92463, as amended by Public Law 94409, closing portions of these meetings is in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6) and (9)(B).

Those who plan to attend the open session should contact the Assistant Director, Scientific Review (124F), Health Services Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, 1722 Eye Street, NW., Washington, DC, at least five days before the meeting. For further information, call (202) 2540207.

Dated: November 17, 2003.

By Direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 0329108 Filed 112003; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 832001M